CCA: Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow - In conversation with Francis McKee
The CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is one of Glasgow’s most important artistic hubs, with a year-round programme of cutting-edge exhibitions, film, music, literature, spoken word, festivals, Gaelic and performance.
The CCA is also home a number of other cultural and artistic organisations, including BHP Comics; Camcorder Guerillas; Cryptic; Document; Electron Club; MAP Magazine; LUX Scotland; Paragon; Playwrights’ Studio Scotland; Scottish Ensemble; Scottish Writers’ Centre; The List; Tom McGrath Writers' Room; University of the West of Scotland and Voice Business.
At the heart of all its activities, the CCA strives to work with artists, commission new projects and present them to the widest possible audience.
We met CCA Director Francis McKee, who told us more about the art centre’s programme of exhibitions, events and films.
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Yoni Wolf and WHY? @ Centre for Contemporary Arts, CCA, Glasgow 08-06-2017
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Roy Moller - CCA Glasgow
Roy Moller at CCA Glasgow
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Sri Chinmoy at the CCA Glasgow in 1975
In one of his first visits to Great Britain, Sri Chinmoy visited the Third Eye Centre in the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) in Glasgow where he played music, gave a talk on the third eye and answered questions on reincarnation, emotions, the inner voice and illumination. He concluded with a silent meditation. This is a historic video, recorded by the staff of the CCA in Glasgow.
Open Street Map workshops Electron Club CCA Glasgow
Bob Kerr at the Open Street Map unconference at the Electron club CCA
#TomorrowFilm at the CCA Glasgow 25th July 2017
'Voxpop' after the film screening of Demain, or #TomorrowFilm, at the CCA in Glasgow on the 25th July 2017.
Pizza by Neil Bickerton at CCA, Glasgow
gas-tower.com presents Pizza, a media performance by Neil Bickerton.
Sam Outlaw @ CCA, Glasgow 2016
People's Palace
Visit by the DRC photography group to the People's Palace, Glasgow, January 2015.
Correct exhibition at the Briggait, Glasgow.
Photography installation/exhibition from work on crime and punishment.
RAMAN MUNDAIR - Sow, Reap & Slowly Savour @ Centre For Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
Film documentation of Raman Mundair's 2019 Sow, Reap and Slowly Savour action/intervention/sound work and installation at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland.
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exhibition notes:
The seeds were planted beneath our tongues
many moons ago
Now is the time
to reap
and taste
the language
Say their names
and slowly
Savour…
For Sow, Reap and Slowly Savour, poet and artist Raman Mundair will create a new work that will be recorded and installed as sound and text.
As part of the process, she offers an opportunity to women of colour and women with a lived experience of the immigration and asylum system via a workshop where they make a place setting for a woman – living, past or mythical. The patterns, text and design of the place settings will be influenced and inspired by Raman's work and draw from seeds, spices, culture, women's mythology and plants from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Arab world. The workshop will be followed by a meal in the space between the participants.
Following the workshop and meal, visitors are invited to view a text and sound based installation that will record stories, memories and sounds related to the seeds, spices, culture and mythology of the women participating in the workshop. The meal place settings will be left in the space to mark the work, offering people who might not have a lived experience of borders, the opportunity to understand processes of generational migration.
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by Artist/writer/activist Raman Mundair
Raman Mundair is an Indian born, Queer, British Asian intersectional feminist and activist. She is the award winning author of Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves, A Choreographer’s Cartography, The Algebra of Freedom (a play) and is the editor of Incoming: Some Shetland Voices.
Her work is socially and politically observant, bold, mischievous, cutting edge and potent with poetic imagery and integrity. Her writing plays with the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class and challenges notions of British and colonial histories and identities. Raman's work focuses on the experiences, knowledges and life-worlds of people of colour and re-frames their experience from a fresh, new perspective. She has published poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction and has performed and exhibited her artwork around the world from Aberdeen to Zimbabwe. She is a member of Ubuntu – a Glasgow based collective working with and for undocumented women in the immigration system.As an activist she has worked on a grass roots level against anti racism, anti fascism, state violence, No Borders, and against gender based, domestic and sexual violence.She regards herself as a writer who writes, makes art, film and installation.
She is the founder of the online FB space: EKTA - Intersectional Dialogue for Women.
She facilitates the Intersectional Voices // Ekta podcast:
For more information on her work visit:shetlandamenity.org/the-artistfacebook.com/ramanmundair@MundairRaman
other film work:
Glasgow: The Art of Hope (Short)
Glasgow: Hope for Art is a UWS short documentary film that examines the relevance and influence of the Glasgow art scene in comparison to other globally renowned cities.
Directed, Edited and Produced by Craig Devine, Scott Kerr and Eric Liddle.
Gallery of Modern Art - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Gallery Of Modern Art Glasgow
Glasgow's newest upscale art gallery, housing the best of modern Scottish artists.
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Travel blogs from Gallery of Modern Art:
- ... Had a much better time wandering around the GOMA, the gallery of modern art and then drinking the biggest coffee I've ever had in my life ...
- ... galleries - far too many to mention in detail in an overview but among those most worthy of seeing are the Gallery of Modern Art (the second most visited modern art gallery outside of London) the McClellan Galleries, the Burrell Collection, the Museum of ...
- ... Today we again rolled out late with the intention of making an afternoon of the Gallery of Modern Art but they weren't kidding about the Gallery part - it was a teeny weeny one and we gazed at all ...
- ... When I arrived outside and took a deep breath of the foreign air, I decided I would go visit the Gallery of Modern Art ...
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Photos from:
- Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Photos in this video:
- Statue outside the Gallery of Modern Art by Travelingdiva from a blog titled Calgary to Glasgow
- Fiona at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art by Fiseb from a blog titled End of Scotland
- Ceiling of Gallery of Modern Art by Travelingdiva from a blog titled Calgary to Glasgow
- The Gallery of Modern Art by Tjfeldman1116 from a blog titled A Whirlwind Day
- Gallery of Modern Art by Katyj from a blog titled Glasgow
- Gallery of Modern Art by Will from a blog titled A land of green and grey
- Gallery of Modern Art by Travelingdiva from a blog titled Calgary to Glasgow
ViewFinder: The People's Palace
Revisit the history of San Francisco’s City Hall, which rose from the rubble of the 1906 earthquake to become a symbol of the resilient citizens.
The Sexual Objects - Midnight Boycow - CCA, Glasgow. 23rd November 2013
The great Sexual Objects performing Midnight Boycow - filmed by Lee McFadden.
Vic Godard & The SPs 'Rock and Roll' Live CCA Glasgow 25/06/2016
A stonkingly good version of Rock and Roll by The Stool Pigeons, filmed by gnu at Night 1 of Hot Fun in the Summertime/Creeping Bent Weekender at the CCA Glasgow 25-06-2016.
Jeffrey Lewis and Los Bolts at CCA, Glasgow, December 2015
Walls of Light: Henry Coombes - The Road is My River
In the Black Gnat factory near Thomson's Falls in Kenya, 8000ft above sea level, local women tie traditional Scottish trout flies to be exported to British fly fishing market. With names like Red Palmer, Zulu and Grouse and the Green, a great proportion of traditional fishing flies are now tied in Kenya. I find this relationship between two commonwealth cultures inspiring, making for a powerful poetic documentary entwining themes of nature, commerce, and cultural tradition.
Commissioned by CCA to mark the beginning of Glasgow's tenure
as host of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the six films explore the ways in which artists can respond to sport in its broadest sense, as well as the social and cultural impact of the Games on the city and its people.
Copyright Henry Coombes.
Supported by Creative Scotland.
Watchtower (Cryptic Nights, CCA Glasgow, trailer)
Watchtower, surveillance art installation: A lighthouse shines its all-seeing eye into the vast ocean, beaming a ray of light into the unknown to avert risk and protect from danger. This audio-visual installation combining sculpture and projection, moving image and sound uses the ocean as a symbol of unpredictability in the context of mass data collection and its influence on predicting behaviour, and light as a trope to examine the quest for total visibility and control.
The film features an overheard telephone conversation (featuring NSA trigger words in its banality) embedded in the sound and shots taken from a drone flown high above the coastline and ocean, the piece reflects on the vastness of the data being collected and the ominous presence of a system that records everything we say and do.
Watchtower reveals surveillance as not solely an activity undertaken by organisations like GCHQ and the NSA, but something that we participate in, particularly in our participation in social media networks and use of communication technologies to record and distribute personal information. It looks at how perspective has shifted within surveillance methods, from an external spotlight on specific activities to a gaze that we internalise and reproduce. And from the feeling of being watched, that has been shown to modify our behaviour to create uniformity, to the extensive data collection nets that actually track our movements, preferences, purchases, affiliations, trawl our emails, capture our webcam footage and so on with the aim of gaining total predictability. From the CCTV camera model that only works if it is visible to the public to the hidden invisible online tracking systems that do as little to draw attention as possible. From the Panopticon to the Cryptopticon.
Originally developed whilst Artist-in-Residence at The Auxiliary, Stockton. Supported by Arts Council England.
Extended during Cryptic's Winter Residency at Cove Park (Feb 2018), for Cryptic Nights at CCA Glasgow (March 2019).